Why part of your brain stays awake when you sleep in an unfamiliar bed
- Whenever Robinson Leoni spends his initial night somewhere new, the pattern remains identical: drifting off takes longer, nighttime awakenings occur far more frequently, and his total rest suffers.
- Spending an evening elsewhere—regardless of earplugs or mattress quality—drops his smartwatch total to roughly five hours.
- "I feel normal, you know, no stress, nothing, but it’s just I notice I wake up continuously," said Leoni, a sales director for a tech company who travels once or twice a month for work.
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- Whenever Robinson Leoni spends his initial night somewhere new, the pattern remains identical: drifting off takes longer, nighttime awakenings occur far more frequently, and his total rest suffers.
- Spending an evening elsewhere—regardless of earplugs or mattress quality—drops his smartwatch total to roughly five hours.
- "I feel normal, you know, no stress, nothing, but it’s just I notice I wake up continuously," said Leoni, a sales director for a tech company who travels once or twice a month for work.
Sources: The Independent